as a crow flies
Example Sentences
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As the chase ends, Sutter gets in one last piece of religious symbology as a crow flies, and a meal of bread and wine appear on the side of the road.
From Time • Dec. 10, 2014
"Eighteen miles as a crow flies; longer by trail."
From The Last Trail by Grey, Zane
Jonathan traveled toward the east straight as a crow flies.
From The Last Trail by Grey, Zane
Set all the sails, and Green, do you steer as straight as a crow flies for the Channel of Balintang.
From The Shipwreck A Story for the Young by Spillman, Joseph
Straight as a crow flies, Newt Spooner was making his way across crest and cove and gulch to the house of the man he had "marked down."
From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville
